The-turing-way: Organise Turing Way Pizza Party on 22 November

[KirstieJane]

We're going to have a sprint at the Turing on 22 & 23 Nov (see #2) and I was thinking that it would be really cool to get the students, researchers and research engineers (and whomever else wants to come!) involved in the planning.

We could host a pizza party 🍕 at, say, 6pm on Thurs 22 Nov with a bunch of whiteboards etc where people could share their ideas about what we should cover??

To do

• [x] Ask the events team if there's anything else going on that day
• [x] Find a space (Enigma if possible, or the kitchen area?)
• [x] Ask the student services team if that would be interesting for the students & could they cross promote
• [x] Figure out how to order pizza and bill it to the project account
• [x] Order the pizza - make sure to cover a bunch of dietary requirements
• [x] ENJOY 😋

[martintoreilly]

I love this idea but the 6pm start will probably exclude those with family / life commitments. I think that's probably unavoidable for pizza scheduling, but perhaps we could potentially have the session start at 4.30pm or alternatively run both a lunchtime and evening session?

[KirstieJane]

Thanks @martintoreilly! I was mostly thinking about how to best engage the phd students which is why I went with a free dinner!!

I don't really want to do a lunch thing because the days disappear rather quickly and I'd like to make sure that we as a team do a bunch of work over the two days, but I'd be totally up for a 4:30 start if that's a little more friendly!

What does everyone else think?

[pherterich]

4.30 start sounds good and hopefully means most people can still join. I guess input from @rosiehigman would be good to get an idea how long she would be available on Thursday.

Lunch time might be difficult to find a point to wrap up and go back to constructive work, but that might just me not being very good at that.

[rosiehigman]

4.30 sounds good, I'm happy to stick around until 7ish. Agree that lunchtime would be a bit tricky to fit in.

[KirstieJane]

Pinged an email to the Turing student services team to ask if they can make an eventbrite. Here's the blurb I sent:

The Turing Way is a lightly opinionated guide to reproducible data science.

Our goal is to provide all the information that researchers need at the start of their projects to ensure that they are easy to reproduce at the end.

This also means making sure PhD students, postdocs, PIs and funding teams know which parts of the "responsibility of reproducibility" they can affect, and what they should do to nudge data science to being more efficient, effective and understandable.

In order to make sure we're building something that is useful to the Turing community, the project team are hosting a Pizza Party from 4:30pm to 6:30pm in the kitchen on the 2nd floor on Thursday 22 November.

Please sign up below if you're able to attend (even if only to grab a slice and check out our post its!)

Kirstie Whitaker

[pherterich]

Thanks to Emma (?) for getting us all the food and everyone for being part of this. I'll close this now as any follow up can be covered in the feedback issue #32 :pizza: